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Syndicate Bank fiasco: Another shadow on Prakash Industries

Syndicate Bank fiasco: Another shadow on Prakash Industries

Rediff.com5 Aug 2014

Despite facing tough times for a while now, a May 2014 press release of Prakash Industries said it had added capacities in its steel melting and ferro alloys divisions.

Net closing in on PNB, IL&FS, ICICI-Videocon, AugustaWestland

Net closing in on PNB, IL&FS, ICICI-Videocon, AugustaWestland

Rediff.com7 Jun 2019

'The web of transactions is so complex that it requires expertise to understand the strategies involved in each fraud.'

There is no corruption in football, reckons FIFA chief Blatter

There is no corruption in football, reckons FIFA chief Blatter

Rediff.com25 Aug 2015

"If there are people who don't like the organisation or don't like me, they will realise they have been wrong... they will realise that."

Agusta case: Centre says PM didn't strike any deal with Italy

Agusta case: Centre says PM didn't strike any deal with Italy

Rediff.com29 Apr 2016

In the matter pertaining to acquisition of AgustaWestland helicopters, the undisputed central issue that stands out is corruption, especially bribery, the statement said.

CONCACAF lawyers warn of serious risks if reforms fail

CONCACAF lawyers warn of serious risks if reforms fail

Rediff.com17 Feb 2016

CONCACAF, the corruption-plagued soccer organisation for North and Central America and the Caribbean, could face dramatic consequences, including being disbanded, if it fails to reform, the organisation's lawyers have told its members.

Slow to start, banks wrestle with insolvency regime

Slow to start, banks wrestle with insolvency regime

Rediff.com13 Jul 2017

Insolvency professionals feel the bankruptcy code will deter defaulters, but NPAs will not cease unless banks are sensitised on credit appraisal and experts are hired by banks to inspect what is happening with their loans.

Will India clash with China over the Maldives?

Will India clash with China over the Maldives?

Rediff.com24 Feb 2018

Would it serve India's interest to go to war with China over the Maldives, asks Aditi Phadnis.

'Modi must recognise this huge blot...'

'Modi must recognise this huge blot...'

Rediff.com31 Jul 2017

'In the three years since 2014 social tyranny has become a very real problem.' 'The government has denounced this tyranny -- once in a while.'
'But its supporters in North India bash on regardless,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.

Will anything come out of AgustaWestland investigation?

Will anything come out of AgustaWestland investigation?

Rediff.com15 Jul 2019

Christian Michel's investigation in New Delhi has revealed nothing substantial, contrary to the expectations of the prime minister and the media hype. A fascinating excerpt from Raju Santhanam's The Untold Story of Christian Michel and Agustawestland.

Rail scam: Court puts on trial Bansal's nephew, nine others

Rail scam: Court puts on trial Bansal's nephew, nine others

Rediff.com11 Mar 2014

Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and nine others, arrested in the Rs 10-crore cash-for-post railway bribery case, were on Tuesday put on trial by a special court on charges of conspiracy and corruption.

Contract termination notice without firm basis for action: Agusta

Contract termination notice without firm basis for action: Agusta

Rediff.com3 Jan 2014

After India scrapped its Rs 3,600 crore deal for supplying VVIP choppers, Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland on Friday said that the contract termination notice sent to it does not offer any firm basis for taking any action against it.

FIFA reform will be limited, says head of panel proposing changes

FIFA reform will be limited, says head of panel proposing changes

Rediff.com4 Nov 2015

The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged with reforming the structure and management of world soccer body FIFA says major changes to the organization's voting structure and imposing term limits on executive committee members will be difficult to achieve in the short term.

CBI names Bansal as witness, nephew architect of railway scam

CBI names Bansal as witness, nephew architect of railway scam

Rediff.com4 Jul 2013

Bansal has been named as the 39th prosecution witness in the case in which Singla, the then Member (Staff) of Railway Board Mahesh Kumar and eight others have been chargesheeted for the offence of criminal conspiracy under the IPC and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Adidas dragged into 2006 Germany World Cup votes row

Adidas dragged into 2006 Germany World Cup votes row

Rediff.com17 Oct 2015

Slush fund allegedly used to buy votes for the World Cup, claims report

FIFA corruption scandal takes shine off Copa America

FIFA corruption scandal takes shine off Copa America

Rediff.com11 Jun 2015

Copa America kicks off in Chile on Thursday as a widening US-led investigation lifts the lid on rampant corruption among the sport's top officials.

Fresh blow for FIFA! Suspends No 2 official

Fresh blow for FIFA! Suspends No 2 official

Rediff.com18 Sep 2015

World football body FIFA put Jerome Valcke, its second-ranking official, on leave on Thursday just hours after an ex-footballer raised allegations he was involved in a plan to resell 2014 World Cup tickets for a lucrative profit.

PHOTOS: Defining moments of the decade in Sports

PHOTOS: Defining moments of the decade in Sports

Rediff.com31 Dec 2019

Some of the big moments of the sporting world from 2010-2019!

Nitish, Kejriwal tear into Modi govt, say people will give befitting reply

Nitish, Kejriwal tear into Modi govt, say people will give befitting reply

Rediff.com27 Aug 2015

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumr on Thursday jointly attacked the Centre calling it "anti-poor and anti-farmer" and asserted that the people will give it a "befitting reply".

An external agency to monitor Bhushan Steel?

An external agency to monitor Bhushan Steel?

Rediff.com18 Aug 2014

State Bank of India's push among fellow bankers to appoint an external agency to run debt-heavy Bhushan Steel might not be smooth sailing.

How best to remember George Fernandes?

How best to remember George Fernandes?

Rediff.com31 Jan 2019

'A fierce crusader against communalism, George joined hands with majoritarian forces, never to revisit or re-assess his saffron association.' 'He was a Union minister in 1998-2004, a time when people like Graham Staines were lynched in Orissa.' 'On the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, George went on to kind of justify the slashing of pregnant women, by saying in the Lok Sabha that this was nothing new for India.' 'Thus, he was in sharp contrast to what he had himself stood for in the heyday of his political career in the 1970s and 1980s, says Mohammad Sajjad.

Why sting operations have failed in India

Why sting operations have failed in India

Rediff.com30 Mar 2016

'The idea of moral responsibility is not particularly strong in our parts. Showing that people are corrupt or immoral through stings doesn't have the required effect in such a culture,' says Aakar Patel.

All you need to know about FIFA elections

All you need to know about FIFA elections

Rediff.com26 Feb 2016

Crisis-hit world football governing body FIFA faces one of the most important days in its 112-year history when it elects a new leader on Friday hoping to usher in a fresh era after decades of tawdry controversy.

Top official leaves FIFA; EU urges Blatter to go NOW!

Top official leaves FIFA; EU urges Blatter to go NOW!

Rediff.com12 Jun 2015

FIFA's director of communications Walter de Gregorio is to resign after making a joke on television.

FIFA's Blatter faces division and suspicion as fifth term begins

FIFA's Blatter faces division and suspicion as fifth term begins

Rediff.com30 May 2015

FIFA President Sepp Blatter began his fifth term at the helm of football's governing body on Saturday facing the daunting task of restoring public faith in an organisation tainted by allegations of corruption and deeply divided over his re-election.

What's so special in officers of govt-run Dena Bank?

What's so special in officers of govt-run Dena Bank?

Rediff.com8 Oct 2014

Many from this small lender have made it to other bank boards over the past 5 years

Bhushan Steel to raise Rs 6,000-crore equity

Bhushan Steel to raise Rs 6,000-crore equity

Rediff.com14 Aug 2014

Firm terms lenders' move to appoint monitoring agency 'unwarranted'.

Why AAP must win Punjab

Why AAP must win Punjab

Rediff.com19 Jul 2016

The party desperately needs another state where, unfettered by the Centre, it can fly its flag.

Unfair to call Bansal tainted: Cong

Unfair to call Bansal tainted: Cong

Rediff.com12 Mar 2014

Faced with a dilemma over handing tickets to leaders facing allegations of corruption, Congress on Wednesday gave indications that while former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal could be re-nominated from Chandigarh, Pune MP Suresh Kalmadi may not be fielded in the upcoming polls.

FIFA's Blatter planned for Russia and US to host World Cups

FIFA's Blatter planned for Russia and US to host World Cups

Rediff.com29 Oct 2015

'It was not an agreement, this was his proposal and of course it (then) went to the vote at the (FIFA) executive committee'

Government vows to do in Agusta what it could not do in Bofors

Government vows to do in Agusta what it could not do in Bofors

Rediff.com6 May 2016

The government vowed to track down the main beneficiaries of the kickbacks so that "we can do" what "we could not do in Bofors

2014-15 a year of financial sector reforms

2014-15 a year of financial sector reforms

Rediff.com31 Mar 2015

The year 2014-15 could well go as one of long-pending financial sector reforms, expected to have a lasting impact.

Why FIFA boss Blatter has become the focus of a criminal investigation

Why FIFA boss Blatter has become the focus of a criminal investigation

Rediff.com28 Sep 2015

A Swiss national who has run soccer's powerful governing body for the past 17 years, 79-year-old FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has now for the first time become the focus of a criminal investigation.

We may do in Agusta what we couldn't do in Bofors: Parrikar

We may do in Agusta what we couldn't do in Bofors: Parrikar

Rediff.com6 May 2016

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Lok Sabha that former Air chief S P Tyagi and Gautam Khaitan, both accused in the case, are "small people" who "simply washed their hands in a flowing ganga (of corruption)" and that the government will 'find out where the river was going'.

Killings in name of cow unacceptable: Centre

Killings in name of cow unacceptable: Centre

Rediff.com21 Jul 2017

Most of the opposition parties blamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliates for the cow vigilantism.

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

Rediff.com16 Jun 2015

'There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today.'

Chennai building collapse exposes unscientific methods of construction

Chennai building collapse exposes unscientific methods of construction

Rediff.com2 Jul 2014

The collapse of an under-construction 11-storey building in Chennai which claimed 11 lives should serve as a wake-up call for the housing sector to have a regulatory mechanism for the construction industry, says N Sathiya Moorthy

Modi@1: Some positive steps, long way to go

Modi@1: Some positive steps, long way to go

Rediff.com26 May 2015

It has been said that by 2025, India could become among the top five economies in the world. If India does become a $5 trillion economy but gets all its rivers polluted, food chain poisoned and genetic pool depleted and biometric database of Indians sold or stolen at the behest of commercial czars, will it not be a pyrrhic economic victory, asks Gopal Krishna.

What a record India has against Pakistan in ICC events!

What a record India has against Pakistan in ICC events!

Rediff.com6 Jun 2017

The win at Edgbaston was not the first time an Indian team had vanquished Pakistan in an ICC competition. Rajneesh Gupta surveys the landscape of India-Pakistan encounters in ICC contests.

Preet Bharara: A crusader's tenure, a hero's exit

Preet Bharara: A crusader's tenure, a hero's exit

Rediff.com15 Mar 2017

Meet the US Attorney who took on Donald Trump.

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